2023-10-07 22:09:24
(CNN) – Former Israeli Prime Minister and opposition leader Yair Lapid told current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday that he was “ready to put aside their differences” and proposed forming an “emergency government with him to manage the difficult and complex process that awaits us.”
Lapid added, in a statement: “Prime Minister Netanyahu knows that under the extremist and dysfunctional security government, he cannot manage the war. Israel needs to be led by a professional, experienced and responsible government.”
He continued: “By forming this professional emergency government, we will make clear to our enemies and to the world that the people of Israel stand behind the army once morest this threat.”
He stated: “We must put politics aside for an emergency government that will manage this situation firmly and will not deal with anything else until we achieve victory over our enemies.”
It is noteworthy that Benjamin Netanyahu threatened the Hamas movement with “revenge” for the attacks it launched early on Saturday, and said, in statements: “What happened today has not been witnessed before in Israel, and I will work to ensure that it never happens once more.”
He added that the Israeli army “will exercise all its force and we will take revenge on Hamas for this black day.” He continued: “We will destroy all the sites in which Hamas members are holed up and conceal themselves and turn them into rubble. We will do so with all force and in every place.”
He addressed the Israelis by saying: “We are fighting this battle together, and the war will take a while and will be difficult, and we have days ahead of us full of challenges.”
Muhammad Al-Deif, the military leader of the Hamas movement, had called, in a recorded message, for a “general uprising once morest Israel” and announced the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, saying that the Palestinian armed group “targeted enemy sites, airports, and military sites with 5,000 people.” rocket”.
He said that the attack on Israel “came in response to the attacks on women, the desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the siege imposed on Gaza,” calling on the Arab and Islamic peoples to “come to liberate Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.”
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